Massive Price Drop!

[Coldcall]

Originally Posted by SteamWake

Done alot of coding have you?

I think there is a valid point that games today are no more superior (and probably less so) from a complexity standpoint, and in depth of game mechanics than games from the late 80s and through the 90s.

I think there is a simple reason for this which is that in the 80s and 90s you were probbaly using a PC, and had enough knowledge of MS Dos to configure and autoexec bat file or whatever to make sure you can run game x...So gamers back then were much more use to dealing with command lines, or games which were complex compared to todays standards.

IMO gameplay mechanics have not progressed in the same way graphics have and in many games one can see the developers have used the eye candy as a redeeming factor in a games with very shallow dumbed down gameplay.

I'd prefer a a more equal mixture of decent graphics and better gameplay. One of the reasons i like the SH series, regardless of the all the problems, is because it feels like one of the last hold-outs from that era when PC games were more complex.